Privacy Policy

Updated to EU Regulation no. 2016/679 (GDPR) effective as of May 25, 2018.

Introduction

1. The privacy of our Web site visitors is very important to us and we are committed to protecting them. This policy explains how we will use your personal information.
2. Consenting to the use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our Web site allows us to use cookies each time you visit our Web site.

Collection of personal information

The following types of personal data may be collected, stored, and used:

1. information about your computer including IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
2. information about visits to and use of this Web site, including referral source, visit duration, page views, and Web site navigation paths;
3. information, such as your e-mail address, that you enter when you register on our website;
4. information you enter when you create a profile on our website, such as your name, profile photos, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details, and employment details;
5. information, such as your name and e-mail address, that you enter to set up subscriptions to our e-mails and/or newsletters;
6. Information you enter while using the services on our website;
7. information generated during your use of our Web site, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
8. information about anything you buy, services you use, or transactions you make through our Web site, which includes your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card details;
9. information you post on our Web site with the intention of publishing it on the Internet, which includes your user name, profile pictures, and the content of your posts;
10. information contained in any communication you send to us by e-mail or through our Web site, including its communication content and metadata;
11. Any other personal information you sent us.

Before you disclose another person’s personal information to us, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

Use of personal information

The information personal information submitted through our Web site will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the Web site. We may use your personal information for the following:

1. Administer our Web site and our business;
2. Customize our Web site for you;
3. Allow you to use the services available on our Web site;
4. Sending goods purchased through our Web site;
5. Provision of services purchased through our website;
6. Send statements, invoices and payment reminders to you and collect payments from you;
7. Sending commercial and non-commercial communications;
8. Sending email notifications that you specifically requested;
9. sending newsletters, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer want the newsletter);
10. send you marketing communications related to our business or the activities of carefully selected third parties that we believe may be of interest to you, by mail or, if you have expressly agreed to it, by e-mail or similar technology (you may inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
11. Provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual users from that information);
12. Deal with inquiries and complaints made by or about you related to our Web site;
13. Keeping our site secure and preventing fraud;
14. Verification of compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our Web site; and
15. other uses.

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant us.

Your privacy settings can be used to restrict the publication of your information on our Web site and can be changed using the privacy controls on the Web site.

Without your explicit consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their or any third party’s direct marketing.

Disclosure of personal information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisors, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set forth in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and all of its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes outlined in this notice.

We may disclose your personal information:

1. To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
2. In connection with any ongoing or future legal proceedings;
3. in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
4. To the buyer (or potential buyer) of any business or asset we are selling (or considering); and
5. to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of such personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority is reasonably likely to order disclosure of such personal information.

Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

International data transfers

1. The information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
2. Personal information posted on our Web site or submitted for posting on our Web site may be available, via the Internet, worldwide. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by third parties.
3. You expressly agree to the transfer of personal information described in this section.

Retention of personal information

1. This section sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
2. Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes should not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or purposes.
3. Subject to Article G-2, we will usually delete personal data that fall into the categories indicated.
4. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
   1. To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
   2. Whether we believe the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or future legal proceedings; and
   3. in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).

Security of personal information

1. We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of personal information.
2. We will store all personal information you provide on our secure servers (password and firewall protected).
3. All electronic financial transactions made through our Web site will be protected by encryption technology.
4. You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently insecure and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the Internet.
5. You are responsible for keeping the password you use to access our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when accessing our website).

Changes

We may update this policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to make sure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes by email.

Your rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; the provision of such information will be subject to the following conditions:

1. the payment of a fee; and
2. The provision of appropriate proof of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a notarized photocopy of your passport plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address}).

We may block personal information requested by you to the extent permitted by law.

You can instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, you usually expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with the opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

Third-party Web sites

Our Web site includes hyperlinks to third-party Web sites. We have no control over and are not responsible for the privacy procedures and practices of third parties.

Updating information

Please let us know if the personal information we hold needs to be corrected or updated.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent from a Web server to a Web browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be either “persistent” or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a Web browser and will remain valid until the set expiration date, unless deleted by the user before the expiration date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the Web browser is closed. Cookies generally do not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but the personal information we store about you may be linked to the information stored and obtained by cookies.

1. The names of the cookies we use on our Web site and the purposes for which they are used are given below:
   1. we use Google Analytics on our Web site to anonymously recognize a computer when a user visits the Web site in order to analyze the use of the Web site to improve its usability, prevent fraud, and improve the security of the Web site;
2. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. Refer to your browser to find out how.

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many Web sites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

1. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer. Refer to your browser to find out how.
2. elimination of cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many Web sites.

The data controller is MelaCantoMelaSuono in the person of the legal representative.

Legal Information

MelaCanto&MelaSono by Michele Di Carlantonio

Via Michele di Lando 83, 00162 Rome – Italy

VAT NUMBER: 01780680706

Tel: +39 348 241 0131

E-mail: info@melacantomelasuono.it